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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., PLNs are much more flexible, personalized, and real-time than conventional, place-based in-service education. Social Bookmarking. Social Media Connections.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., PLNs are much more flexible, personalized, and real-time than conventional, place-based in-service education. Social Bookmarking. Social Media Connections.

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Introducting social media in organisations to improve the learning function is more difficult than you may think.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The organization chose a toolset with thematic wikis as a basis, supplemented with other social media such as social bookmarking, blogs and discussion forums. "We We chose to use existing social media services in the cloud instead of buying a company package, because this creates flexibility and is cheaper.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

Allow me to elaborate my argument in the context of the financial services industry. In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks. Social and professional networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Zone Alarm Listen UP!! This is NOT Customer Service!

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « DevLearn 2007 Update | Main | More DevLearn 2007 Notes: The Great ILS Challenge Results » November 12, 2007 Zone Alarm Listen UP!! This is NOT Customer Service! Now click the Service Tab, place a check in "Hide All Microsoft Services."

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

It also seems appropriate when there isn’t time or budget for recording and syncing visuals and audio, particularly for dummy audio when you need to show sponsors and SMEs how the media elements of an online program will be integrated prior to the recording. This is an online TTS service using Cepstral’s voices. VoiceForge.

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2009 Technology Trends That Impact Online Learning

The eLearning Coach

Cloud computing refers to delivering capabilities as an online service accessed from a web browser. The number of applications and services that rely on cloud computing seem to be growing exponentially, impacting both the development and delivery of online learning. Access to the source code makes the programs customizable.